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Hey everyone,
I've been reading this forum for advice and you are all very helpful, so maybe you can shed some light on this problem. When I do a single NdeI digest on one vector in particular, rather than seeing the expected shift upwards on a gel for the linearized, cut plasmid, I instead see two bands develop. One band is lower than the original, uncut plasmid; and the other band may be slightly higher than the uncut plasmid. With XmaI single digestion, one band appears over time that is lower than the uncut plasmid. Has anyone seen this before? In case it matters, the vector is pIVEX and it is intended for use in cell-free systems.
Looking forward to your comments, thank you!
Hey just in case anyone else has read this and was wondering, I think I figured out the problem. The vector sample, which was given to me by another scientist, is just extremely dirty and most of it is circularized/nicked rather than supercoiled. So when I do a single digest on it, the linearized DNA runs faster on the gel as expected.

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I have been in my hometown for a couple of days with my two boys, as there was work to be done and Mary Jo is doing horse events this weekend. This is the first time I've visited since everyone learned that I'm transsexual and since becoming Joyce full-time. In the days leading up to this trip, I felt somewhat anxious, but not terribly so.
Joyce arrives in her hometown for the very first time
The drives from Bedford Falls takes about 3 hours, and I was in a desperate need for a bathroom when I arrived at my office in Empire Falls. The boys ran into the office to play as soon as I got the door unlocked, and just as I was dropping off my stuff to head to the toilet, my banker stopped me in the hall and said it was good to see me — Debra Burns is a veteran banker and I have always liked her, and I was quite happy to see she had gone out of her way to stop and chat, making very solid eye contact and a broad smile that spoke volumes. Welcome home, indeed.
Uncle Jack and sister Liz arrive to discuss family business
As Debra left to go over to her office, my sister and uncle showed up — I shook hands, made eye contact and smiled, then said that I absolutely had to dash out. I was worried that Uncle Jack would take offense since I had learned from Liz that he had worried about meeting Joyce for the first time, but when you have to pee, you simply have to pee. Turns out there was nothing to worry about, as the 2-hour discussion was easy and fruitful, and I never felt any sense of tension around "the Joyce issue." I suspect that having business to transact really makes a difference — you can't get too freaked out by transgender people if you want to work a deal, can you? The downside of conducting business is that we never set aside any time for talking about "the Joyce issue." For now, however, I am happy and satisfied.
We are joined by Aunt DeeAnne at the Abstract office
We had to be at Empire Falls Title Company at 2:00, so we ceased our business discussion at 1:45 and split up to rendezvous at the title company on time. When the boys and I walked in, Jack and DeeAnne Law were already there, as was Liz, so we entered and said hello. DeeAnne may have been thinking about the house deal intensely and thus had no energy for me, but I suspect she was worried about meeting me and was having trouble making eye contact or conversing. It's all right, of course, as no one's head exploded and we were able to sign all our documents without a hitch.
Liz treated me and Lane and Ezra to a steak dinner to celebrate this milestone of settling the very last asset in our mother's estate, then we parted ways and bought supplies for our ranch house at the grocery store. Didn't run into anyone I knew.
We visit Liz and Gerald at their ranch
Later in the evening, we drove over to Liz's house to see her grandson Rye and to say hi to her husband Gerald. He didn't bat an eye and we joked about "you look different." "hmmmm, is it losing 10 pounds?" "no, I think it's something different." And so on — it was a very nice, comfortable visit to end a very long day.
The boys and I go for a misty walk
This morning, the boys and I got up early, ate bacon, eggs, and biscuits, and then went for a nice long walk down to the creek. There were low, scudding clouds that created mist that hung on the bluffs and all the prairie birds were chirping. We saw a deer and picked wildflowers. We talked about Joyce, about coming back later in the summer, about how beautiful the plains can be, about how concepts of beauty and nature seem to depend on where you're brought up, and about whether we would see any rattle snakes (we didn't). It was a wonderful time together.
We visit Liz before lunch
The boys wanted to play with little Rye, their cousin, so we went back over to Liz's place after our walk. While they were playing, Liz brought out all this unused Lancôme makeup, some beautiful handbags, and some unused jewelry, handing it to me and asking me what I thought about it. Not only was Liz's sense of what would look good on me excellent, but the whole interaction felt so warm and so easy that I was nearly overwhelmed. I don't recall ever having that sort of connection with Liz, and I found it wonderful. She gave me a necklace and matching bracelet that really completed my black-and-white striped shirt and black shorts, and she also gave me a sparkling black handbag that looks fabulous. I know it's frou-frou and I know I'm attaching perhaps more significance to these things than necessary, but it's a first for me and I felt like I belonged and that Liz was simply accepting her sister Joyce without dwelling on brother George at all. I'm making up for lost time and all I know is that I like this kind of interaction with my sister. I don't know if it's something she had to brace herself for, but our interaction seemed awfully genuine, and I'm grateful to have family like her.
Lunch and shopping in town
A trip to the bookstore, video game store, and restaurant proved uneventful.
Final visit to Gerald's, Liz's, and Rye's place
After a mighty hailstorm passed overhead and Lane and Ezra tempted the fates by running out into the falling hail, we went over to the Rhapsody household one last time. The boys played with Rye and I watched the last few holes of the US open (third round) with Gerald. Liz and I talked some more, inspected her kitchen remodeling project, and generally bonded. A cool breeze was blowing from the south and as we sat outside we could see distant lighting in the thunderheads off to the east in the deepening dusk. I don't believe I have ever felt closer to my sister, and I don't know whether it's because I'm finally being honest with myself, because the gender dynamic is different, or simply because we have learned to share more as we have aged. Whatever the reason, this was one of the best parts of the visit, which ended with long hugs all around.
We drive back to Bedford Falls tomorrow, but we'll be back in late July, when I propose to hold a small party for friends of mine who are attending the Bedford Falls High School 30th reunion. I have decided not to go to the official reunion events so as not to make waves, but if any of my old friends want to see me, I'll have barbecue and beer at my place as an alternative or a precursor to the official reunion activities. After my welcome these past two days, I'm feeling more and more at ease about the prospects of reestablishing my connections in my hometown.


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The Good Wife is adding a bit of Bluth for Season 5.
Jeffrey Tambor, best known as George Bluth Sr./Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development, will guest-star in the CBS drama's fifth season premiere, The Huffington Post reports.
The screen vet will play a judge who's in a race against the clock for a case involving the death penalty. Tambor joins an elite group of actors who have portrayed judges on The Good Wife, including Denis O'Hare, Ana Gasteyer, Bebe Neuwirth, Jerry Stiller and David Paymer.
The Good Wife casts Outsourced alum as ... the new Cary?!
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I have been working on this review forever! I was asked a while back to review the Sony "W". Being the skeptical reviewer that I am, I was really skeptical that this would replace my iPod and love for the Apple Family. I wanted to give it a try though, because like so many people I have a problem with the cords and bounciness, etc. etc.
Here's a picture of me wearing the Sony W at the Camarillo Marathon in October. I got the W in July of last year and have been running with it since then. I love all the features that it has and my most favorite thing? Cordless! When I first started wearing it, I loved how light it was and I was really surprised how it stayed in my ears while running and working out. It was nice not getting tangled up cords and pulling my own ear buds out when I'm running or doing stuff with headphones. It's really nice to mix it up. Here's a close up of the earbuds in my ears. They stay in really well and the wires curve over your ears nicely and they don't fall out at all.
Another great thing about them is the fact that they are pretty easy to use. I have never had a problem updating music on my Mac. I just plug it in and it is simple to drop music onto the player. You can see how much space you have left and all the songs on the player as well. There is a small light that lets you know when it's fully charged and it's easy to plug into any computer to charge. The only thing I wish it has was a wall charger since I'm not always around a computer. The only thing that took me a while to learn was how to turn it off. The first few times I used it, I had to let it play until it died because I'm an idiot and couldn't figure out how to turn it off. All you have to do is put the little magnetic pieces together like shown below and it will turn off.
So once I figured that out it was pretty smooth sailing. I do like the wide variety of how loud and soft the music goes and I feel like it gets pretty loud which is awesome for the gym. I also like how I can listen to just one ear if I'm running in a busy location and I know it also has a "zappin" feature, which changes the song about every 15 seconds so you just get little snippets of each song, but I don't really like that feature because I like listening to whole songs, but I could see it as being entertaining if you had ADD.
The thing that really is awesome about the Sony W is the fact that it's only $59.95. To me, that is a reasonable price for this product. I really think that it's a cool product and I'm happy to say that I have shed my iPod for the W! I just love the convenience, and the simplicity of it and how it doesn't have cords and how portable it is. I also like the price because if it did break, I wouldn't be heartbroken over $59 bucks. It's also waterproof and I use it all the time now. I don't even use my iPod for working out! If you would have told me that I love this little guy as much as I do, I wouldn't have believed it but I am seriously glad I checked this out and if you are in the market for something new, I would totally put it on your list! You can find out more here! I hopefully will be having another giveaway soon! Here's another great review as well!


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Are Gift Cards A Good Idea This Holiday Season?
Gift cards have become a popular present to give during the holidays but are they always a good idea? Poor economic conditions have resulted in a growing list of store closures, with more stores likely to close after the holidays. A gift card to a store that closes can become worthless or difficult to use. And, keep in mind some gift cards may have expiration dates, dormancy fees and other restrictions that limit their use.
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Association of California School Administrators and the California Association of Professors of Educational Administration survey on school prinicpals - Statistical Data Included.
Former Colorado governor and Los Angeles Unified School Superintendent Roy Romer discovered this his first month or so on the job. He expressed concern that L.A. Unified, the second largest school district in the United States, was about to open the 2000-2001 school with 40 unfilled principal positions.
NEA ResourcesThe Discipline Dean
Steven Johnston doesn't send unruly students to the principal's office. He's one of a growing number of teachers whose job it is to set the tone for students at his school.NEA Drop Out Prevention Plan
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ANAHEIM -- Tuesday night, Delmon Young made his first start with the Rays since Sept. 29, 2007, prior to his trade to the Twins on Nov. 28, 2007.
The Rays signed the 27-year-old to a Minor League contract on Aug. 22. After a stint at Double-A Montgomery to sharpen up his timing against live pitching, Young joined the team on Sunday. Young went 2-for-5 Tuesday night, making him 3-for-8 since joining the team.
Prior to playing Sunday against Oakland, Young's last Major League game was Aug. 8, when he suited up for the Phillies against the Cubs. Young downplayed the work he had to do to get ready to play again.
"I had already been playing all year, so it wasn't like I was going into the beginning of the season without playing," Young said. "I just had to do a couple of simple things and then repeat them."
Young smiled when asked how being back with his old team has been thus far.
"It's pretty awesome," Young said. "Especially how laid back it is. This is how baseball teams should be: very loose and able to be yourself, and enjoy yourself while you're in the clubhouse."
And to be making a contribution so quickly as he did in Tuesday night's win?
"Just to get a win," Young said. "You don't want to go into Sept. 1 with a playoff spot and Sept. 29 without one. It was nice to get a win, because the teams trailing us and the teams in front of us, they're winning. So we need to keep winning and try to gain as much ground as we can on Boston before the big series at home."
Rays manager Joe Maddon called Young a "pleasure" when asked about having him back in his clubhouse.
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Gay Foppish Dandy 'Assaulted' By Moneyed Straight in the Hamptons, Takes Stand
Socialgay Kristian Laliberte's weekend was below average. On Saturday, he was hanging out at Georgica being fabulous when someone "assaulted" him by calling him a "Jew" and a "fag." Worse, the "douche" wasn't kicked out because he's a big spender!
Laliberte first reported the incident on his Twitter over the weekend:
Laiberte, last seen fully engaged in the most retarded social feud in the history of retarded social feuds, spoke to Guest of a Guest about the incident, but refused to elaborate on the details of what exactly happened, so we are only left to assume that Laliberte said something insulting about the guy's socks or something. However, he didn't hold back on painting himself as the gay Rosa Parks for having the courage to speak out against gay slur words.
A lot of my straight friends don't get why its such a big deal. However if the LGTB community wants to achieve more tolerance and equality, they need to realize that this term is nothing short of saying that homosexuals are second class citizens, that something is wrong with us.
When straights and gays realize the import of the world and all that it implies, its to recall a time when the n word was perfectly acceptable, a time when a certain group was inferior to the general population. We all know where that can lead.
Don't people realize that gays are being hung in Iran or bombed in Israel. People should stamp out hatred whenever they see it, and I was disappointed and ashamed that this certainly wasn't the case with the staff at the night club.
Sadly, Laliberte's words aren't exactly hollow, but it's hard to take them, or anything else that comes from Kristian Laliberte, seriously when they come from Kristian Laliberte.


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This is a rebuttal post to comments posted Private Methods Considered Harmful
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Mom and I aren't always the best of friends. A good friend of mine even calls our relationship unhealthily enmeshed. We fight pretty often and sometimes, the fights can get quite emotionally draining.
In fact, I'll be moving out from my parents' place soon. My attempt at giving us some distance and me gaining some independence. Obviously she doesn't understand why at this moment and some part of her thinks I'm abandoning her.
Yet, does that mean that we don't love each other?
Nope, when I'm sick, she fusses day and night over me. Now that I'm moving out, she's worried sick that I won't be able to take care of myself. She had a bad fall recently. That had brother and me re-scheduling our time to make sure she's cared for.
(She's a lot better now, in case you're wondering.)
Family love comes in all forms and patterns.
What matters most isn't an annual declaration but what we do every other day. (Besides, she's probably scream at me for wasting money if I were to buy her presents.)
I will never be able to always see eye to eye with mom, and I'm pretty sure I take her for granted sometimes.
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I sat down yesterday morning with a cup of coffee and the intention of writing a post to you, and then realized that though I don't believe in jinxes, and I didn't really think I could make myself fall down by typing about what a great ski trip we had, I do really hate revising writing and so I put it off until now, simply in the interest of not needing to delete a post about how awesome it was and instead write about how charming the Ski Patrol is and how sweet the doctors in the emergency room in Banff are, and how much less scary it was to be airlifted out of the Rocky Mountains than I thought it would be. Turns out that I'm out the other end of the thing, totally intact.
We skiied during the daytime, with me taking lessons and Joe off doing wild man things, flinging himself off the top of mountains and doing double blacks, while I timidly made the transition from green runs to blue ones. I had a very nice instructor named George, who consistently told me that I'm a much better skier than I think I am, I'm just too nervous. "Relax" he told me over and over. "You just need to relax." I'm not sure I have the trick of it yet, because all I did then was really concentrate on relaxing, and I don't think that's what George meant, and there were moments (more than one, I'm afraid to report) where I stood a the top of a slope George wanted me to ski down, looked at his intentions, the steepness of the thing, how far you would fall to the bottom with a misplaced ski, and cordially looked him in the eye to say "What the actual f**k, George."
Still, at the end of the three days, George presented me with a certificate outlining my skills, and confidently decreed that I could ski any groomed run. "Any" he said, as long as I managed this elusive relaxation. I looked at my card, and immediately noted an error. Muttering, I approached George, and explained that I wanted him to tick off the box that said I could manage small jumps. He looked at me a little confused, and I reminded him that he's been on lifts with me, surely he's noticed that I'm five feet tall, and that means that getting off a lift isn't a simple matter of standing up. I have to jump. (This made for a dramatic first dismount from a lift last year, by the way, when the instructor told me to wait until my skis touched the ground, then stand up. Never happened. I almost went right round the thing.) "George," I proclaimed. "You've seen me. You know I'm jumping. I want that box. That's a jump. Tick it off."
George agreed, though even now I'm unclear on whether or he truth thought it was right, or was just a little frightened of me. He sat down, put a proper checkmark in the box for small jumps – and added a little note. "On lifts." He also told me that skiing with me had been a lot of fun, but in the comments on my report card, I noted that it just said "Been a lot skiing with you this week" and at first I thought the "fun" was just missing (he had several to fill out) but I've been told before that I'm rather "a lot" and I wonder if George is breathing a little easier now that I'm headed off his mountain.
In between death defying runs down the slopes, I knit. I had lots of time in the mornings, and in the car on the way places, and at dinner, and in the evenings,
and I'm happy to report that the first little border on the baby blanket is done, as is the second larger one, and today on the way to the airport I'll finish charting the third, big one, and by the time I get home tonight, it should be well started. I've big plans to apply myself diligently to that thing over the next week, try to really break the back of it. There's more than 680 stitches to a round now, so progress feels like it's slowing down all the time, but it's still a lot easier than skiing.


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First, Broker Wei Min Tan takes his client around the Chinatown area in New York City to see a modern and luxurious green home in Tribeca and a spacious penthouse filled with light close by (Watch video here).
In Pacific Palisades, CA, we visit a sustainable home made with recycled items and furnished with only energy-efficient appliances. With impressive views of the Pacific Ocean, this eco-friendly home is sure to wow (Watch video below).
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Later, enjoy a luxurious Long Island home with a bowling alley, home theater, indoor and outdoor pool, mahogany library and more. Never be bored in this fun house (Watch video here).
Finally, we'll meet sweet Katie, a young girl who suffers from tumors on her brain and spine, but that never keeps the smile off her face. Very much deserved, George gives Katie the bedroom of her dreams (Watch video above).
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Today I'm happy to feature a guest post by Steve Gitlin who recently traveled to Portland, Maine to check out all it has to offer in the ways of good beer. Steve submitted all of these awesome photos and if you scroll down he breaks it down for you between having to drive and walk around town. I'm actually going to be going up to Maine in September so this is really helpful for me having never been to Portland. I hope this helps you out too!
|Flatbread Company
|The Great Lost Bear
|Gritty McDuff's
|Gritty's taps
|Maine Brewing Co.
|Nova Res Bier Cafe
|Portland Lobster Co.
|Steve enjoying lobster and great beer
|Rising Tide Brewing Company
|Sebago Brewing Company
|Sebago taps
|Shipyard Brewing Co.
|Shipyard taps
Day 1: Driving Stops
A) Portland Head Light - best scenic site of the trip, non-beer related
B) Allagash Brewing Company - name speaks for itself, but only better in person
C) Maine Beer Company - small batch brewers
D) The Great Lost Bear - more of a local pub, with an enormous selection. Put in a session!
E) Rising Tide Brewing Company - small startup that does artisanal hand crafted ales
F) Peak Brewing - non pictured as tours were unavailable our weekend, but the beers are great and I wish I could have visited
G) Bier Cellar - best spot to buy beer to bring home/to the room
Day 2: Walking Spots
A) Gritty McDuffs - Maine's original brew pub
B) Portland Lobster Company - must do lobster rolls and great local craft selection
C) Sebago Brewing Company - brew pub with extremely fresh beers
D) Shipyard Brewing Company - the local hero
E) Flatbread Company - wood-oven organic pizza with 20 taps to choose = no brainer
G) Novare Res Bier Cafe - the most popular spot in Portland and a place where we all feel right at home


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Letter, Thomas H. Webb to Eli Thayer
Author: Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins), 1801-1866
Date: May 26, 1854
Webb, writing from Boston, Massachusetts, was the secretary of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company. He informed Eli Thayer, the organizer of the company, of his concerns about fund raising efforts among the Massachusetts business elite.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: New England Emigrant Aid Company Collection, #624, Box 1, Folder 3
Item Number: 100368 Number of images: 3
Keywords: Emigrant aid companies; Massachusetts; Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company; New England Emigrant Aid Company; Thayer, Eli, 1819-1899; Webb, Thomas H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1801-1866
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VIENNA - OPEC ministers agreed to keep their daily crude production target unchanged at a meeting Wednesday. But in a sign of internal rivalries, they failed to reach consensus on a new secretary general, a post sought by Saudi Arabia, Iran and resurgent oil-power Iraq.
The agreement to leave the production ceiling at 30 million barrels a day was expected. Actual output, however, is a million barrels higher because some countries produce above their limits.
The 12-nation Organization of the Petroleum Producing Countries is expected to continue breaching the ceiling, despite a plentiful world supply of oil. Robust U.S. production and anemic world demand due to flagging economic growth have further contributed to pushing crude inventories unusually high.
OPEC predicts even less demand for its oil next year in part because of weak economic growth in consuming countries — something the organization said was the "biggest challenge facing global oil markets in 2013."
OPEC Secretary General Abdullah Al-Badry detailed some of the key risks to growth and oil demand — Europe's debt crisis, Japan's weak economy and America's "fiscal cliff," the hundreds of billions of dollars in tax hikes and spending cuts due to take effect on Jan. 1 unless politicians reach a budget deal.
"We see uncertainty in 2012 and in 2013, and we see the world economy is not in good shape," Al-Badry told reporters.
On the bright side, he said he expected the U.S. Congress and the White House to reach an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff, which could push the world's largest economy into recession. He also forecast continued economic growth — and oil demand — from America, as well as China, India and other developing countries.
The decision to keep to the present production target reflected most OPEC nations' belief that prices remain high enough to keep sales profitable, despite the weak global economy.
Benchmark crude for January delivery was up 70 cents to $86.49 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, gaining for the second day after falling for five straight sessions.
Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, was up 90 cents to $108.91 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London. Brent has been well over $100 a barrel most days this year — a level within OPEC's comfort zone.
Iranian oil minister Rostam Ghasemi — whose country is losing hundreds of thousands of barrels a day in oil sales due to international embargoes over its nuclear program — said the Islamic Republic ideally sought a cut of 2 million barrels a day to the OPEC ceiling. But even he added that Tehran could accept the current daily ceiling of 30 million barrels.
"The state of the market today is fine, but if OPEC does reduce its production the state will improve," he said.
Ghasemi also played down the effects the sanctions were having on his country as an instrument of pressure to force concessions on a nuclear program some nations fear may be geared to making weapons — allegations Tehran denies.
He claimed the Iranian state had cut its financial dependence on oil income by 20 per cent in the last three years. "Next year we will do the same," he said.
OPEC ministers did not agree, however, on replacing Al-Badry as the organization's secretary general — the public face of the organization between ministerial meetings and a symbol of the cohesion the group likes to project despite persistent internal rivalries.
Instead, the meeting extended him for a sixth year, making him one of the longest-serving officials in that post in OPEC's history.
The choice of secretary general must be unanimous among OPEC's 12 members. The failed Saudi, Iranian and Iraqi bids reflected the divisions between those member states, despite the cartel's outward show of unity.
A choice between Iran and the Saudis — whose disputes extend beyond oil dominance to regional political rivalries — would have further polarized the organization. Iraq, which is vying to out-produce the Saudis in the next decade, also was considered by some members to have its own agenda instead of wanting to serve OPEC.
Analyst Cornelia Meyer, CEO of MRL Corporation suggested that despite internal strains, OPEC — which produces more than a third of the world's crude — remained successful in helping keep "the world adequately supplied with oil."
"While it has one aim, it has so many divergent views," she said. "It's never been cohesive."
Margaret Childs contributed to this report.


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If it seems like it's been a while since I last posted a Name That Council, you're right!
After a two-week hiatus, everybody's favorite game is back with one of the toughest challenge in a while.
But first, a reminder about the rules:
- Each week I select a council shoulder patch and use Photoshop to remove all text.
- You guess the name of the council whose members wear the patch. If you're right, you're entered to win the patch.
- Only one entry per person is allowed, and only one winner will be selected at random.
- The deadline to enter is 2 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, April 14, 2011.
- Enter after the jump.
The entry deadline has passed. Find the answer here.
The winner was Tracy Bess of the Buckskin Council. There were 70 correct answers.


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Construction Consumer Products Metals & Materials Safety Environment Transportation Chemicals Energy Medical Quality
Testing for Randomness
A. Many of us get data sets with the assumption that the process was in control, i.e., the data are random about a target; or suspicion that the process was out of control, i.e., the data show some indication of nonrandomness. An obvious solution is to simply plot the data on a control chart and determine whether or not the process was indeed in control. Of course, you must first know how to construct the chart and its control limits. E2587, Standard Practice for Use of Control Charts in Statistical Process Control, or ASTM's Manual on Presentation of Data and Control Chart Analysis, 8th Ed., will provide you with the information you need to solve the problem graphically.
But suppose that you don't have a copy of E2587, Manual 7 or a computer program such as Minitab available to help you plot the data and check for process stability (randomness). In this case, you can use a simple statistic called the mean successive difference test. Let's suppose that we have n data values, x1, x2, …, xn. Successive differences are just the differences x2 – x1, x3 – x2, … xn-1 – xn. (In the field of quality control, the absolute value of these differences are just the moving ranges of n = 2 typically used to construct the control limits for the individual control chart.) When we square these differences and average them, that gives us the mean successive difference. In order to construct a test statistic, we will divide the MSD by the sample variance. The result is a ratio of the sum of squares of the MSD and usual sum of squares of the sample variance. The formula looks like this:
We can use M to detect nonrandomness in any sequence of observations, typically referred to as serial correlation. If the data come from an in-control process, then the average value for M is 2. If the observations fluctuate excessively, e.g., saw-tooth pattern, then M will be large. Conversely, if the observations exhibit a long-term cycle, then M will be small. So, how can you determine whether M is too large or too small statistically? Table 1 shows lower and upper critical values for M for a variety of sample sizes and levels of significance (?), e.g., ? = 0.05 level of significance is 95 percent confidence. (Note that the upper critical values are simply obtained from UM = 4 – LM.)
The mean successive difference test as described by Bennett and Franklin can address two aspects of process capability studies.1 First, the test can identify the type of nonrandomness present (too many or too few cycles). Second, given that there may be cycles or trends, the mean successive difference provides an estimate of the process variance about the cycle or trend line. In other words, the MSD implies the value of the process variance if the cycle or trend can be eliminated.
Bennett and Franklin provide a dataset of plant yields that we can use to test for serial correlation. Data for n = 25 consecutive weeks were: 81.02, 80.08, 80.05, 79.70, 79.13, 77.09, 80.09, 79.40, 80.56, 80.97, 80.17, 81.35, 79.64, 80.82, 81.26, 80.75, 80.74, 81.59, 80.14, 80.75, 81.01, 79.09, 78.73, 78.45 and 79.56. The sum of squares of the 24 successive differences is 31.6772, and the usual sum of squares associated with the sample variance is 25.1343. Thus, M = 31.6772/25.1343 = 1.26. Table 1 shows that M is between the critical values of the significance levels of 0.05 (LM = 1.367) and 0.01 (LM = 1.128). Since the value of M is less than 2, we can conclude that there is a slow nonrandom fluctuation in plant yield values over this 25-week period with at least 95 percent confidence. Figure 1 shows an individual control chart from Minitab where the control limits are based on the MSD. Here we can see the slow cyclical pattern in the data suggested by M.
1. Bennett, C.A. and Franklin, N.L., Statistical Analysis in Chemistry and the Chemical Industry, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1954, p. 679.
Dean V. Neubauer, Corning Inc., Corning, N.Y., coordinates the DataPoints column; an ASTM International fellow, he is chairman of Committee E11 on Quality and Statistics and chairman of E11.90.03 on Publications.


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Clergy urge Americans to defend religious minorities
A group of religious leaders representing seven faith traditions have called for something more than a period of public mourning after a week that saw a shooting rampage at a Sikh temple and a suspicious fire at a Missouri mosque.
"It is my hope that this is more than a time to express personal sorrows," said Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. "Our most concrete rejection of violence occurs when we engage the neighbor, the neighbor who is new in our community, the neighbor who worships differently than we," he said.
The gathering was mostly virtual—a national conference call sponsored by Shoulder to Shoulder, an interfaith group founded in 2010 to combat a surge of anti-Muslim sentiment. Faith leaders came together on August 9 in the wake of several recent acts against religious minorities.
On August 5, a gunman shot and killed six Sikhs at their Wisconsin temple. The following day, fire razed a Missouri mosque. It was the second fire at the mosque this summer, after a July blaze that investigators have determined was arson. Meanwhile, a Tennessee mosque has struggled to open despite protests from critics across the nation.
Kathryn Lohre, president of the National Council of Churches, encouraged congregants to participate in a national day of prayer on August 12 in support of the Sikh community. She also advised Americans to visit Sikh temples.
"We are also encouraging congregations across the country to be responsive to the gracious hospitality of our Sikh brothers and sisters who are opening their gurdwaras for prayer and fellowship and mutual understanding," she said.
Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said that religious groups must together focus their efforts against hate crimes. "America is the most religiously diverse nation in the history of humankind," Saperstein said. "Hate crimes are not just mere acts of violence. . . . They are a betrayal of the promise of America."
Also taking part in the conference call were Catholic Bishop Denis J. Madden; Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America; Peter Morales, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, and Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky, director of the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue at the Jewish Theological Seminary. —RNS